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Definition

illegal acts encouraging resistance to government authority — especially overthrow of the government

She was investigated for sedition, but charges were dropped.

sedition = illegal acts encouraging resistance to government authority — especially overthrow of the government

Sedition is a punishable offense for members of the U.S. military.
The sedition law signed by John Adams proved unpopular and was soon allowed to expire.
Nothing since was as stimulating as the old days of letters, petitions, meetings, debates, recruitment, quarrels, rescue and downright sedition.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved

sedition = illegal acts encouraging resistance to government authority — especially overthrow of the government

I learned precisely how seditious and cunning an enemy could be.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

seditious = tending to engage in acts that resist government authority or attempt to overthrow a government

thy seditious countrymen
William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors

seditious = rebelliousness toward government authority

Guards, musketeers, officers, soldiers, murmurs, uneasiness, dispersed, vanished, died away; there was an end of menace and sedition.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
And heap'd sedition on his crown at home.
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 3
Envy, sedition, strife,
Sophocles -- Oedipus At Colonus
If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot.
Sun, Tzu -- The Art of War
Their leaders were executed for sedition or confined in madhouses.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
They took me into the guard-house and searched me, but they found no sedition on me.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
But one thing I'm not going to stand: I'm not going to stand my own wife being seditious.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
But I also believe that the methods of the abolitionists as a whole have been dangerously close to sedition on a number of occasions.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
Then I thought about the rebels, and how the king was usually quick to point out their sedition, but I was supposed to keep this news to myself.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection
Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
He'd talked half of her barons into deserting her, while pretending to be an ally, and his sedition nearly dethroned her.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
He said that Sam was too smart a boy to be fooled by sedition.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
It was like seditious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, fascist and Communist.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

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